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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2006, 14:16:23 PM »

what time will the uplift start ?  10 o'clock?

Just trying to decide whether to come up the night before or mission it in the morning, as it's a 3hr drive I think.
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« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2006, 16:35:59 PM »

what time will the uplift start ?  10 o'clock?

Just trying to decide whether to come up the night before or mission it in the morning, as it's a 3hr drive I think.

Uplift will be from 10am to 4pm
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2006, 22:41:54 PM »

Is the uplift full? cant work it out ftom the website
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« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2006, 17:48:05 PM »

Is the uplift full? cant work it out ftom the website

Yes uplift is full
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #19 on: March 19, 2006, 19:39:50 PM »

Just thought id put up some positive comments before any bad ones happen! The track was quite good although the wind off the top was a bit ferocious.  The first 2/3 were fun then came the silly slippy steep stuff.  I got down the chute thing on my first and second runs then it got ripped up so bad half of the people going down it were coming off on it! 

It was a good atmosphere, good weather just standard NPS level uplifts!
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #20 on: March 19, 2006, 20:06:53 PM »

so was the track hard or was it just that one bit. is it like molfre open with big jumps?
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #21 on: March 19, 2006, 20:23:50 PM »

I didnt find it too difficult but the conditions didnt help im sure once the tracks are more worn in it will be better! Good venue though, well done to Dan athereton.

The poor taping of the track didnt help much as id be riding one line thinking i was on the right track and 3 metres above to the right was someone else thinking the same.
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #22 on: March 19, 2006, 20:56:07 PM »

many people may agree with me here, change the bottom bit!!!!

managed to nail myself 3rd run in and could barely walk did another run but leg was seized couldnt push down good enough on the drops or lean the bike down so called it a day.

going to invest in a set of muds there for the nps though.

cheers for putting the event on dave but try and have a dabble with the bottom bit Wink
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #23 on: March 19, 2006, 21:10:05 PM »

the bottom was fine, this is downhill its supposed to be challenging, overall the course was good fun i thought.  nice to be riding on proper big hills aswell.

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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #24 on: March 19, 2006, 21:27:08 PM »

any pics or vids?
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #25 on: March 20, 2006, 13:08:22 PM »

I thought it was pretty mint. third run down was my favouritist, I think the wind must've momentarily dropped a bit! and I forgot where most of the drops were which was interesting, but meant I found a cool line be accident.

That steep chute at the bottom was pretty gnarly, well more to the point, the exit of it was. I got it ok but I also got caught up in the gloop at the bottom and did a few somersaults, got whacked on the head and generally got a bit beaten about.

Uplift queues were ok for an uplift day I thought, not too long for the most part, par for the course. I just don't think you can fit more than 1 hour per run in anywhere. That said, with five tractors and so few riders, I would've expected the turnaround to be a little quicker.

With three times as many riders however, could be a bit of an issue having only one "loading bay" mound thingy - could another be built for dual trailer loading? Particularly as the tractors seemed to come in batches.
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #26 on: March 20, 2006, 18:20:37 PM »

The poor taping of the track didnt help much as id be riding one line thinking i was on the right track and 3 metres above to the right was someone else thinking the same.

The track was taped the way it was, to allow experimentation with different lines. This was an uplift day NOT a race! Now that we have seen which bits people liked, which they didn't, what worked what didn't, we can put in some more work and make decisions on the course to be used for the NPS.

As for the uplifts .. It took you from next to the finish up a big mountain virtually to the start? There were 4 tractors runninmg for 100 ish people and from 2pm onwards there was virtually no queing, and for the last hour most of the tractors left with spaces?

What you fail to remember is that a downhill mountain bike can descend a mountain faster than a tractor and trailer! ....


As a foot note please also see this thread on the uplift day started by a well know Elite rider who thought the day excellent! http://forum.southerndownhill.com/index.php?topic=80543.0
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #27 on: March 20, 2006, 19:20:58 PM »

I didnt mean it as a bad thing, it was just strange and annoying that i took a different route through the really wide bit each of my runs! 

And if you were after feedback: use the line furthest to the left on the really wide bit as its skinny off camber with a rock to take your front wheel if your not fast enough, all good fun! 

It was a good event all in, a bit cold at the top, wouldnt fancy sitting up there all day on a race day! brrrr!
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #28 on: March 21, 2006, 13:06:01 PM »

No, I disagree! If you mean the rock drop into gulley, with upness after, use the right hand line, you have to turn into it more (so more hardish) and when you do drop off it at speed its more like a jump and well mint.
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Re: Rugog Farm uplift day | 19th March
« Reply #29 on: March 21, 2006, 13:42:26 PM »

I didnt mean it as a bad thing, it was just strange and annoying that i took a different route through the really wide bit each of my runs!
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